BOOM!
Posted on 02/28/2012 8:40:36 PM PST by DogByte6RER
BOOM!
>>equivalent amount of destructive force as a Volkswagen Beetle traveling at 100 mph.<<
Which would be the first VW Bug to actually hit that speed.
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That there’s funny.
I assume the mean for the driver of the Beetle.
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Terrestrial “Rods from God”...or should I say Marine?
Cool!
>>equivalent amount of destructive force as a Volkswagen Beetle traveling at 100 mph.<<
I wouldn’t want to stand in front of one, but it doesn’t seem like that would do much damage to a hardened target.
Nonsense. I had one years ago that would do 100MPH no problem.
Good luck with that! No guidance system known to man can handle that acceleration and keep on functioning. Plenty of systems with far lower velocity/acceleration have proven impossible to function after being subjected to high g-forces.
The story said 32 TIMES the force of a beetle doing 100.
beetle traveling at 100 mph 32 times over
I wonder why the odd shape? Did anyone see any info about exactly how fast this thing really is moving? Is it more than 5000 ft/sec?
Railgun slugs are by definition simple chunks of metal. Even if the electronics could handle the acceleration, they’d be fried by the magnetic field. I think what they’re talking about is how the gun is aimed.
HA! My series 3 photon raygun makes that look like a puss.Isn’t that right Commander Spock?
I wonder how long before they start doing rapid fire? I’d like to see them rip off a couple hundred in under a minute.
Turbo drag bugs are pretty quick, very embarrassing to Mustangs and Cameros.
Except take that force and concentrate the impact into an area the size of the round. To put the 32 megajoules in comparison, a .45 only has about 600 joules of kinetic energy. That amount of concentrated energy is staggering.... and that is before the consideration of a rapid succession of these projectiles hitting the same point.
>> “Which would be the first VW Bug to actually hit that speed.” <<
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Back in the ‘70s I used to do about 120 MPH in one on the sand between Guadalupe and Oceano for the midnight cruise. (engine was somewhat modified)
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